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In his Independence Day message for 15 August 1947, Sri Aurobindo declared that “a new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race.” At that time, the United Nations had been in existence for just two years. More than sixty years later, the UN, with all its imperfections and political imbalances, still represents an opportunity for humanity to consciously affect its destiny, to deliberately embrace the spirit of oneness. One of the new books introduced below, Evolving Beyond Borders: The United Nations from the Perspective of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy, attempts a study and analysis of the evolution of the United Nations and its agencies and offers a look at the lessons of the European Union’s struggle to rise above national interests. In their study of the UN and its relevance to the future, the authors have selected some fundamental issues which they feel need to be closely examined in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s thought. In the final pages, they conclude that the experiment represented by the UN is not about its successes or failures, but the wider evolutionary process. The book’s final quote, from Sri Aurobindo’s The Human Cycle, written during the second decade of the twentieth century, rings clear and strong today:
Key to the progress of society is the individual’s progress. In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo wrote that “the great evolutionary periods of humanity have taken place in communities where the individual became active, mentally, vitally or spiritually alive.” Our next book is the story of one individual’s mental, vital and spiritual growth at the feet of the Mother. Living in The Presence records the experiences of a young woman who joined the Ashram in 1951. Her reminiscences are replete with both the simple joy and the occasional pain of becoming more conscious, as her inner life develops and she learns to mould her talents for music and dance into an expression of her inner self. She recounts how the Mother answered her request to study Indian classical music:
The author concludes her book with the reflection that the call to transform the conventional ways of thinking, old habits, and outdated customs, the daily work of such change is our inheritance from the Mother, and reflects her continuing presence and action in our lives.
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![]() | Evolving Beyond Borders
The United Nations from the Perspective of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy |
Sri Aurobindo has written on the League of Nations and on the United Nations in its early stages in the light of man’s progress towards a greater human unity, not as prescriptions for an efficient world organisation. Basing their research on this same view, the authors look at Sri Aurobindo’s social and political vision for humanity on the one hand and on the other examine the evolution of the United Nations and some of its special agencies, its role in war and peace, its stance on the question of self-determination, and the challenge represented by the power of economic interests. A special reference is made to the European Union and its struggle to rise above national ideals and interests. | |
![]() | Living in The Presence
Shobha Mitra |
These reminiscences date back to 1942, when the author first met the Mother, and describe how she eventually came to settle permanently in the Ashram in 1951, while still a teenager. Dance and music were her interests and later, in the Ashram, they became her field of work and sadhana. As well as performing, she taught singing and arranged cultural programmes. In this book, translated from the original Bengali, she gathers memories recorded over the years in her notebooks and brings them to life in a series of vignettes. Through the intimate details of her exchanges with the Mother, a vivid portrait of her spiritual journey emerges from the pages. | |
HINDI | |
![]() | Ma Tumne Aisa Kaha Tha...
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Hindi translation of Mother You said so... Description of content for original work: | |
GUJARATI | |
![]() | Savitri: Angrejimanthi Gujarati Shabdakosh
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![]() | Auroville - Ek Parichay
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TELUGU | |
![]() | Mother, Sri Aravindula Jeevitam - Sadhana
Georges Van Vrekhem |
Telugu translation of Beyond Man Description of content for original work: | |
GERMAN | |
![]() | Die Praxis des Integralen Yoga
Ein Leitfaden für ganzheitliche Spiritualität |
German translation of How Do I Begin? and How Do I Proceed? | |
![]() | Mutter und Ich
M. P. Pandit |
German translation of Mother and I Description of content for original work: | |
ARABIC/ENGLISH | |
![]() | Selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in Arabic
Compiled from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother |
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